Painting; according to Jean-Luc Marion; is a central topic of concern for philosophy; particularly phenomenology. For the question of painting is; at its heart; a question of visibilitymdash;of appearance. As such; the painting is a privileged case of the phenomenon; the painting becomes an index for investigating the conditions of appearancemdash;or what Marion describes as "phenomenality" in general.In The Crossing of the Visible; Marion takes up just such a project. The natural outgrowth of his earlier reflections on icons; these four studies carefully consider the history of paintingmdash;from classical to contemporarymdash;as a fund for phenomenological reflection on the conditions of (in)visibility. Ranging across artists from Raphael to Rothko; Caravaggio to Pollock; The Crossing of the Visible offers both a critique of contemporary accounts of the visual and a constructive alternative. According to Marion; the proper response to the "nihilism" of postmodernity is not iconoclasm; but rather a radically iconic account of the visual and the arts that opens them to the invisible.
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